Recent research grants

Researchers in the Wayne State University College of Engineering use their expertise, persistence and ingenuity to find new, and often complex, solutions. Some of these projects contribute to the economic renewal of Detroit and Southeast Michigan. Many are interdisciplinary collaborations covering a wide range of applications and engineering domains. All are derived from the college's core mission to make the world safer, greener, healthier or more simply put, better.

Grant listing

Refine the list of recent research grants by applying filter/s for the department/program, faculty prinicipal investigator and/or major research theme. Click the principal investigator name to see their faculty profile. Filters are only available for departments, PIs and research themes associated with a grant included in the full list. 

Materials and smart manufacturing

Career: charting the quantum computing landscape for process control

$429,907 | National Science Foundation (NSF)
May 1, 2022 - April 30, 2026


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PI: Durand, Helen
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

Energy and batteries

Career: enhancing energy efficiency in mobile augmented reality apps

$223,217 | National Science Foundation (NSF)
March 1, 2022 - February 28, 2027

Mobile Augmented Reality (MAR) apps require executing several compute-intensive tasks to render virtual objects and, using Artificial Intelligence (AI), analyze the environment. This project proposes an edge-assisted and energy-efficient framework for MAR apps that dynamically balance virtual object quality and AI performance to maximize user experience and battery life, which will help speed up the MAR adoption in many sectors of modern society.
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PI: Brocanelli, Marco
Computer Science

Mobility

CRII: CNS: Towards an Efficient Serverless Mobile Edge Computing Network

$175,000 | National Science Foundation (NSF)
July 1, 2022 - June 30, 2024

PI: Zhou, Xingyu
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Smart, connected communities

CNS core: enabling real-time, scalable and secure collaborative intelligence on the edge

$499,861 | National Science Foundation (NSF)
January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2024

PI: Dong, Zheng
Computer Science

Smart, connected communities

Conjunctive deployment of distributed stormwater infiltration and bioretention infrastructures to mitigate flooding and related non-point source pollution in Beaumont and Port Arthur, Texas

$34,074 | Lamar University
January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2024

This USEPA-funded, community-based, collaborative effort among Lamar University, UTX-Arlington, and WSU to study mitigation strategies for flooding from excessive storm water runoff and associated water quality problems in the urbanized landscapes of Beaumont and Port Arthur TX, which are set in novel shrink-swell soils.

PI: Shuster, William
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Data science and artificial intelligence

Harnessing sensor data for degradation analytics and operations and maintenance optimization in PV systems: a prognostic approach

$110,000 | Argonne National Laboratory
December 23, 2021 - December 22, 2024

PI: Yildirim, Murat
Industrial and Systems Engineering

Health engineering and informatics

Infusion device optimization by addressing root causes of the inflammatory response

$2,665,731 | National Institute of Diabetes Digestive & Kidney Diseases (NiDDK)
April 20, 2022 - February 28, 2027


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PI: Klueh, Ulrike
Biomedical Engineering

Materials and smart manufacturing

CRII: FET: 3D printed application-specific neuromorphic circuits: design, fabrication, and implementation

$174,889 | National Science Foundation (NSF)
April 15, 2022 - March 31, 2024

Neuromorphic computing devices can operate computations with the speed and energy efficiency of the brain. This project aims to develop a data-driven and high-throughput manufacturing platform for neuromorphic circuits, based on nanoscale 3D printing, that will enable design freedom in both the materials and device architecture levels. Proposed integrated framework will enable the realization of application specific neuromorphic circuitry.
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PI: Tutuncuoglu, Gozde
Electrical and Computer Engineering